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Tracking the Stimulus Spending with Recovery.org
GreenBiz.com's senior writer Marc Gunther speaks with Eric Gillespie, the CIO of Onvia about how his firm's website, Recovery.org, is helping companies track federal stimulus spending -- and get a slice of the pie.
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Greener by Design 2009: The New Metrics of Design
At our Greener by Design 2009 conference last month, Senior Writer Marc Gunther spoke with Wal-Mart's Rand Waddoups, James Sullivan from Clear Standards, and Terry Swack of Sustainable Minds about the guidelines and metrics that they put to work to assess the life-cycle impact of their products.
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The Green Building Impact Report is the first integrated assessment of the land, water, energy, material and indoor environmental impacts of buildings built to the USGBC's LEED standard. In this report we attempt to answer whether green buildings live up to their name.
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In the second annual State of Green Business report, Joel Makower and the editors of GreenBiz.com answer the question: How are U.S. businesses doing in their quest to be more environmentally responsible?
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GreenBiz.com is pleased to share the full session videos from the State of Green Business Forum.
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In April, the Clinton Climate Initiative, the Rocky Mountain Institute, Empire State Building owner Tony Malkin, the city of New York and project partners Jones Lang LaSalle and Johnson Controls Inc. unveiled their bold plan to green the iconic skyscraper -- a project that has proved a high level of energy savings can be captured cost effectively.
Bad engineering design is simply wasteful, but a Rocky Mountain Institute initiative aims to create a set of teaching tools to help engineers designs things like buildings or vehicles that use radically less energy and resources.
With the economic slowdown and the resulting need to be more efficient with both resources and costs, tenants are increasingly focused on the operating costs of buildings -- whether they are looking to relocate or remain in their current space. Going green provides a way for them to save money and the environment.
From retrofits to road projects, the Onvia website recovery.org tracks stimulus spending, enabling businesses to scout for opportunities in government contracts and taxpayers to see where the money is going and how many new jobs are expected.
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NEW YORK, N.Y. -- Retailers that put green practices to work at their facilities can save tens of millions of dollars a year by managing resources and waste more aggressively, according to SSA & Company.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- With Energy Secretary Steven Chu by his side, U.S. President Barack Obama detailed stricter new lighting standards and promised the swift release of $346 million in Recovery Act funds to boost energy efficiency in new and existing commercial buildings and homes.
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SPRINGFIELD, Ore. -- Symantec’s Oregon facility has been certified as a green building with a gold rating under Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design standards. It's the second time that the firm has earned the ranking for one of its sites.
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OAKLAND, Calif. -- Berkeley firm Scientific Conservation Inc. broadly goes to market today with its SCIwatch software-as-a-service solution -- a first in Automated Continuous Commissioning that its creators say enables building owners and operators to cut as much as 25 percent of annual energy spending by tackling a condition called energy drift.
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CHONGQING, CHINA -- The company expects the plant, located in western China in the city of Chongqing, will use 22 percent less water and 23 percent less energy than other PepsiCo plants in the country.
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CHICAGO, Ill. -- The owners of Sears Tower plan to ratchet up the efficiency strategies at the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere, cut electricity use by 80 percent and construct a net-zero energy luxury hotel next door.
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ELK GROVE VILLAGE, Ill. -- The company has contracted with Lime Energy to upgrade 286 sites nationwide, and expects to save $3 million per year in energy costs when the project is complete.
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NEW YORK, N.Y. -- Environmental Defense Fund and food service firm Restaurant Associates have released a set of Green Dining Best Practices covering everything from purchasing to the operation of corporate cafeterias that has already helped two major firms save thousands of dollars.
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DEERFIELD, Ill. -- Water conservation, energy efficiency, retrofits and other eco-friendly initiatives yielded Baxter International Inc. a total of $11.9 million in environmental income, savings and cost avoidance for 2008, the diversified healthcare products firm said in its latest sustainability report.
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WARSAW, -- Deloitte House, the first commercial structure in Poland to be certified as a green building by the European Commission, officially opened this month.
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STAFFORD, Texas -- ECO by Cosentino, a line of countertops and surfaces made from 75 percent recycled material, has received Cradle to Cradle Silver certification from McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry.
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BOOTLE, UNITED KINGDOM -- A new Asda supermarket in a Liverpool suburb that diverts 95 percent of its operational waste and slashes greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent has been awarded an "excellent" green rating from the British Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Methodology.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- National Gypsum Company, the second largest producer of gypsum wallboard in the U.S., went live this week with a "Green Site" that provides information on its plants, product content and certifications.
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OAKLAND, Calif. -- Two new reports on the impacts of moving to a low-carbon economy show putting money toward energy efficiency, building retrofits and renewable energy projects can create 1.7 million new jobs, significantly more than the same investment in fossil fuel industries.
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MENLO PARK, Calif. -- HID Laboratories has officially launched its SmartPod Luminaires, a lighting solution that mates IT with high-tech design and energy efficient performance, the firm says.
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DALLAS, Texas -- Advocates for the U.S. cement industry and environmentalists are facing off in hearings this week as federal regulators call for comment on new rules to limit emissions from the energy-intensive kilns that are core to the business.
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Chicago, Ill. -- Business and residential customers participating in the Commonwealth Edison Company's energy efficiency programs saved more than $20 million in utility costs in the past year, the power company said.
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- The Santa Clara, Calif.-based data center has become the first building in the city to earn a LEED-Gold certification.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- An audit by U.S. Department Energy's Office of the Inspector General of seven facilities, including DOE headquarters, concluded that better management of IT resources could have saved at least $1.6 million in energy costs in fiscal year 2008.
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HOUSTON, Texas -- Workers now average 435 square feet of space at the office and that area is greener than it used to be, but probably not much cleaner, according to a new study by the International Facility Management Association.